August 23, 2018 |
The Patron Saint of Loneliness
Sarah Shotland
I saw her at a campus TGIF three weeks ago. Talking Gender Issues Fridays. It’s a weekly chat-session where students come to look at the week’s current events through a gender lens. The campus used to be single-sex, but now we call it gender inclusive. We were going out of business; there are only so many radical lesbian 17 year olds, and most of them already get into Smith.
August 23, 2018 | Poetry
How to Survive as a Single-Family Car*
Marne Wilson
Strike up a conversation with other cars you meet
Hunger Made The Woman Obsessed
Amanda Dycus
Tortellini becomes my password for everything.
Damn.
Darby Cashed
Damn.
Kendrick Lamar
April 14, 2017
Top Dawg
54:54
The first time I visit Southern California, it’s for work. I get lost out of LAX and wind up toting my luggage around Inglewood- the
Get Lost
Kevin Wilson
On Friday at school, we were all vibrating, so nervous for what came next. We barely listened in class because what did it matter? We wouldn’t be around to turn in the homework that would be due on
in style & so-and-so
Katherine Vondy
sentences are donuts bursting with believability custard
Rising Inaction
Ash Sanders
It’s Saturday night, and I am cleaning the kitchen because it’s easier than cleaning up my life; I am putting away dishes because I know where dishes go. I do not know where to put other things:
Two Poems (Eulogy & These Smart Glasses ...)
Jonas I. Tijerino
How grand it would be if Jedi Temples were Papaya Monuments.
Year of Conor McGregor
René Ostberg
Imagine if McGregor were a woman, I’d wonder throughout the day, as I sifted through the barrage of emails from my boss, all his reminders to cc him the next time I sent this or that, the notifications that he’d be leaving early again as I stayed late. Imagine McGregor in an office. Imagine him…or her, aged a bit past her prime. How would she prep for a fight? What would it be like to be a woman like her?
Fun Facts
Donald Ryan
What do you get when you mix and elephant with a rhino?
Elephino.
That joke has always held a special place with me. I first heard it back in prime time when the American Broadcasting Company
The Beauty Mark
Rani Neutill
“You are cursed,” my Dida said, solidifying the bells of mortality that were ringing.
“Ki?” I responded, my eyes wide with fear and panic.
“There is a beauty mark here inside you. It means you are cursed with sexiness.”
Like a Revolution
Alex Perez
The truth was I knew exactly what was happening, how the possibility of power had clouded my judgment. In bed at night, I thought about putting a stop to all of it and just playing the season out, but I couldn’t shake my contempt for Parker. It wasn’t about baseball anymore, not in the slightest. It had taken just a few days for me to turn the war of aesthetics into a full-fledged revolution.
superstitions
Jody Chan
getting a haircut in the year’s first month will cause the death
of an uncle eating fish will bring your family abundance
八 meaning eight sounds the same as 發 meaning wealth
& also hair eight
2 Poems (from The Gospel According to X)
Oliver Baez Bendorf
from
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO X
Prayer is what you do when you don’t know whether your animal will live through the night. Pink like Pepto-Bismol staining a goat’s chin. Everything lives and
"Talkin' Bout Practice": Memorabilia
Alyssa Oursler
I made eye contact, made the purchase, stored it between other magazines on my bookshelf.
Wow and Flutter #7: Spirit of Elijah
Tyler Koshakow
1.
I found a copy of Spirit of Elijah by Wilson McKinley on the record shelf of the Goodwill in Bellingham, Washington. Like many of the thrift store records I own, I bought it because it looked
The Mounting Evidence against Monotheism
Jeffrey Hermann
Because there’s a god for the water on your skin
when you’ve come from the lake. One for the absence
of flowers in a vase, for every pump and filter organ inside my dog
One god isn’t enough to
Stephanie Loves Stephanie
Marta Balcewicz
“YOU IDIOT!” I scream, but only in my head. For 25 years now I haven’t been able to speak my mind, especially not to a stranger. Enrolling in Glenda’s Eagle Training course is supposed to help, but for now I’m still a grounded hatchling teetering my way through week three of the seven-week program.
Heavy Metal Love Song
Lia Mastropolo
Heavy Metal Love Song
Street drafts off the two-tone carpet in my underworld
Air so much wetter than the memory of it sharpness of weather
spoiling for more life
Two buses